ArticlePsychiatry research. Neuroimaging2018
Increased cognitive control and reduced emotional interference is associated with reduced PTSD symptom severity in a trauma-exposed sample: A preliminary longitudinal study.
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- Neurofeedback for post-traumatic stress disorder: systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical and neurophysiological outcomes.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2023Pooled it
- The Relationship of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder to End-of-life Care Received by Dying Veterans: a Secondary Data Analysis.Journal of general internal medicine · 2020Trial
- Neural mechanisms of negative emotionality and cognitive control: The role of frontal midline theta.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Sequential decreases in basolateral amygdala response to threat predict failure to recover from PTSD.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2025Article
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- Trauma and the default mode network: review and exploratory study.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2024Article
- Effects of stress on neural processing of combat-related stimuli in deployed soldiers: an fMRI study.Translational psychiatry · 2022Article
- Post-traumatic stress disorder: clinical and translational neuroscience from cells to circuits.Nature reviews. Neurology · 2022Review
- Neural contributors to trauma resilience: a review of longitudinal neuroimaging studies.Translational psychiatry · 2021Review
- The functional connectome in posttraumatic stress disorder.Neurobiology of stress · 2021Article
- Attentional control abnormalities in posttraumatic stress disorder: Functional, behavioral, and structural correlates.Journal of affective disorders · 2019Article
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Abstract
Individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) show deficits in recruiting neural regions associated with cognitive control. In contrast, trauma exposed individuals (TEIs) show increased recruitment of these regions. While many individuals who experience a trauma exhibit some PTSD symptoms, relatively few develop PTSD. Despite this, no work has examined the relationship between changes in PTSD symptoms and changes in neural functioning in TEIs longitudinally. This study examined the neural correlates of changing PTSD symptom levels in TEIs. Twenty-one military service members completed the affective stroop task while undergoing fMRI within 2 months of returning from deployment and a second scan 6-12 months later. Participants with PTSD or depression at baseline were excluded. PTSD symptom improvement was associated with greater increase in response to incongruent relative to congruent negative stimuli in dorsal anterior cingulate cortex and inferior frontal gyrus/anterior insula and increased BOLD response over time to emotional relative to neutral stimuli in inferior parietal cortex. Improvement in PTSD symptoms were not associated with changes in amygdala responsiveness to emotional stimuli. In short, the current data indicate that TEIs who become more able to recruit regions implicated in cognitive control show greater reductions in PTSD symptom levels.
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